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Dear SMS Steering Committee & Community : It is with deep happiness I tell you that last weekend Sarah Bender received transmission from me, in a simple ceremony on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. She is now a Roshi of the Pacific Zen School, …Read More »

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Our Women Ancestors
Recent revelations of the moving, illuminating, maddeningly partial stories of our East Asian women ancestors are beginning to make the story of Chan and Zen more whole. These meditations on books about East Asian monastics and Japanese laywomen are filled with new metaphors and imagery, as well as practices, created by these geniuses on the margins of our tradition.
***We are in the process of editing two wonderful talks about Women and Zen that will get sent out to subscribers by the end of April. To receive these talks in your inbox as well as others, visit JoanSutherlandDharmaWorks.org > Subscriptions